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Taste of Roma

This weekend I took a break from baking
and cooking for the blog and decided instead to hop over to Rome’s Taste of
Roma food festival atParco della Musica, an outdoor, 4 day event highlighting the best of the Eternal City’s
gourmet cuisine. Chefs from 12 of Rome’s best restaurants prepared small
tastings of their dishes, which allowed the diner to sample as much as
possible (and sample we did). Tastings aside, there were also various cooking
demonstrations, wine-tastings run by sommeliers, and stands
selling cheese, prosciutto, cannoli, and gelato, among other things. In short –
for a foodie like myself, pure heaven.

Ready to eat!!!

Joining me was my sister Alexandra and our friend Yasmine. We arrived at the Festival for the afternoon session (from 12:00-17:00) paid for our tickets (16 euros each) and received a card that needed to be topped up in order to pay for the dishes -- not the cheapest way to spend an afternoon, as each tasting cost around 6 euros, but given the high quality of the food it wasn't a bad deal.

I must say that nothing we
tried fell short or disappointed us (and we tried a lot of dishes!) My favorites in particular were the cacio e pepe "meatballs" from All Bi One, as well as the corn fettuccine dish from Marzapane (photos of both dishes below). It was fun
to be able to sample dishes from restaurants that normally are far too
expensive to even be considered as an option for dinner. I could write more here, but I think that I will let the
photos speak for themselves – if you want to see all of the menus of the
restaurants featured at the festival, or learn more about Taste of Roma, click here.

METAMORFOSI

Taglioni with carrot, black truffle

Caramelized fig with lemon, almonds, and vanilla ice cream

ALL BI ONE

Decisions, decisions...

Cacio e pepe "meatballs"

Cacio e pepe "meatballs"

Dessert "meatball" menu

Chocolate ganache "meatballs" with raspberries and fig cream

LA PERGOLA

Poached egg, black truffles, amaranth

Sedanini with breadcrumbs, smoked eggplant puree, and shrimp

MIRABELLE

Seared tuna with Bloody Mary sorbet, citrus, black bread

Tortelli with cacio cheese, pear, and almonds

MARZAPANE

Corn fettuccine with beef broth, onion, and pork "popcorn"

GELATERIA PUNTO GELATO

Caramel and pink salt gelato, buffalo milk and cherry gelato

A few more photos of the stands at Taste of Roma...

Note the "Inverno 2015" advertisement to the left for "Taste of Christmas" -- glad I don't have to wait a whole other year for the next Taste of Roma festival...!!! Have a nice week everyone!!!